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COFFINS TO DIE FOR IN GHANA February 25, 2010

About 50 years ago, a Ghanaian angler started a trend when, upon his death, he was buried in a wooden coffin shaped like a fish.

Today, cab drivers are buried in wooden taxis, preachers in Bible-shaped boxes and smokers in coffins shaped like cigarette boxes. Artsworld explores this macabre but colourful art form in the Ghanaian capital, Accra